Example sentences of "he have been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ He 'd been taken back to Germany for slave labour . |
| 33 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 34 | If he 'd been thrown out of a window . ’ |
| 35 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 36 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 37 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 38 | He had been swept along by Tommy 's drunken madness . |
| 39 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 40 | He had been shot down in September , 194O . |
| 41 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 42 | The pilot survived the crash , but further investigation found that a month later he had been shot down by enemy fighters 12 miles off Etaples , Northern France , again flying a Tomahawk . |
| 43 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 44 | Kim had been on the Wiring Project for almost year now , though for most of that time he had been kept out of things by Spatz . |
| 45 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 46 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 47 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 48 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 49 | Four hours later he had been beaten down to £2,900 . |
| 50 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 51 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 52 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 53 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 54 | But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court . |
| 55 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 56 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 57 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 58 | We now suspect he had been written off by both the consul and the Spanish authorities at an early stage . |
| 59 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 60 | Presumably he had been locked out of his room , for the tea-house manager searched in vain for keys to the antique padlocks which fastened the tall double doors . |